Yakasai blasts Atiku: Your position on restructuring is hogwash, invitation to anarchy

Elder statesman, Tanko Yakasai, has criticised the position of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on restructuring of Nigeria as hogwash and invitation to anarchy.

Yakasai said the position of Atiku was disappointing because it was full of ambiguity.

“I thought, as a politician that he (Atiku) is, that he has read our constitution from A-Z before suggesting that we can restructure in six months. My question here is, what are the details of the budgetary provisions for the Ministry of Works that should be transferred to the states’ ministries of education and so on and so forth before he made his pronouncement that these could be done within six months?”, he told Sunday Vanguard yesterday.

The former Special Adviser to Second Republic President Shehu Shagari went on: “Atiku served as Vice President for eight years. So when he threw his support for the new slogan, I celebrated that, for the first time, because of the strategic position he held in the past, he would come up with a clear definition of what we didn’t know about restructuring.

“We already have a budget approved by the National Assembly as empowered by the constitution for appropriation. So, how can we take the fund already appropriated by the National Assembly for the federal government to execute its programme and now transfer it without the consent of the National Assembly?.

Vanguard, July 30, 2017

 

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